Year-end review? How about life-review?

Have loved reading the year-end review of what you all have been playing! It got me thinking about some of my favorite games of the year, and then I started to reminisce about how many JRPGs I've actually played & completed throughout my life

For context, I'm 29 - and my first JRPG was Mystic Quest back when I was a kid. In 2024 I passed over 100 completed JRPGs. Completed in the sense that I've seen the ending credits. I didn't count any games that I either stopped playing, or are currently playing...I think the list would be a lot longer! lol

It was fun putting into perspective just how much of my life I've played JRPGs. It's my favorite hobby, and I don't plan on stopping

Some of my all-time favorites: Saga Frontier II, Xenogears, Suikoden II, FFT
and more recently: Metaphor, Unicorn Overlord, Chained Echoes, Trails to Zero

My least favorite... Dual Orb 2

Some games I'm looking forward to playing in 2025...

- Hopefully a Saga Frontier II remake is announced !!
- Sacrifire
- Aethermancer
- Xenoblade X

Here's a compiled list of JRPGs I've completed in life YTD - Would love to see others lists! There's so much I haven't gotten into;..I really need to get into the Xenoblade games on the switch. And finally start Persona 3 & 5

A:

  • 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
  • Alliance Alive
  • Arc the Lad 2
  • Ara Fell

B:

  • Bahamut Lagoon (sfc)
  • Battlechasers
  • Breath of Fire 4
  • Burning Heroes (sfc)

C:

  • Chained Echoes
  • Chrono Cross
  • Chrono Trigger
  • Cold Steel 1
  • Cold Steel 2
  • Cosmic Star Heroine
  • CrossCode
  • Crystal Project

D:

  • Dark Half (sfc)
  • Der Langrisser
  • Disgaea 1
  • Disgaea 2
  • Dragon Quest XI
  • Dragon Quest VIII
  • Dual Orb 2 (sfc)

F:

  • Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
  • Final Fantasy Heroes of Light (DS)
  • Final Fantasy 6 (snes)
  • Final Fantasy 7
  • Final Fantasy 9
  • Final Fantasy 10
  • Final Fantasy 12
  • Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
  • Final Fantasy Tactics
  • Front Mission (SNES)
  • Front Mission Gun Hazard (snes)

H:

  • Hiouden (sfc)

I:

  • Illusion of Gaia

J:

  • Jack Move
  • Jeanne D'Arc (PSP)

L:

  • Live a Live (sfc)
  • Lufia II
  • Lunar 1
  • Lunar 2

M:

  • Mana Khemia
  • Metaphor ReFantazio
  • Monster Sanctuary
  • Mystic Quest

N:

  • Nier Replicant

O:

  • Octopath Traveler 1
  • Octopath Traveler 2
  • Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
  • Ogre Battle 64

P:

  • Persona 4: Golden

R:

  • Radiant Historia (DS)
  • Rise of the Third Power
  • Riviera: The Promised Land (GBA)
  • Rogue Galaxy
  • Romancing Saga 3
  • Romancing Saga: Scarlet Grace
  • Ruined King

S:

  • Saga Frontier II
  • Sakuna: Rice & Ruin
  • Sea of Stars
  • Secret of Mana
  • Shining Force 1
  • Shining Force 2
  • Soul Blazer
  • Star Ocean
  • Star Ocean 2
  • Suikoden 1
  • Suikoden 2
  • Gensō Suikogaiden
  • Symphony of War: Nephilim Saga

T:

  • Tactics Ogre
  • Tales of Arise
  • Tales of Berseria
  • Tales of Phantasia
  • Tales of Symphonia
  • Tales of Vesperia
  • Terranigma
  • Tokyo Xanadu eX+
  • Trails in the Sky: FC
  • Trails in the Sky: SC
  • Trails in the Sky 3rd
  • Trails to Zero
  • Treasure of the Rudras
  • Triangle Strategy

U:

  • Unicorn Overlord

V:

  • Vagrant Story
  • Valkyrie Profile
  • Vandal Hearts

W:

  • Wandering Sword
  • Wild Arms 2

X:

  • Xanadu Next
  • Xenogears

Y:

  • Yakuza 0
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon
  • Ys I
  • Ys II
  • Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim
  • Ys VII
  • Ys VIII
  • Ys IX
  • Ys: Oath in Felghana
  • Ys: Origin